Thousands of people are expected to pack the showground for the Royal Bath & West Show in May Credit: ITV News West Country

This year's Royal Bath and West Show launches today at a special media event. The four day event near Shepton Mallet starts on 28 May, and will feature the British Cheese Awards and British CIder Championships.

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A schoolboy from Somerset has forced supermarket giant Tesco to change its packaging after he spotted a grammatical error. 15 year old Albert Gifford from Shepton Mallet noticed the fruit in his orange juice was described as the 'most tastiest'. He wrote to the firm and they apologised.

Workers at the Gaymer Cider Company in Shepton Mallett say they are celebrating after agreeing a 'no-strings' pay increase.

Staff had been offered a 3% pay rise on the condition that they then accepted a pay freeze in the subsequent year.

More than 100 production workers at the site in Kilver Street took part in industrial action. They say they have now accepted a 3% rise 'without any strings attached'.

The threat of industrial action forced the company to put the three per cent offer back on the table and also to withdraw any pre-conditions about future negotiations over pay. It has been a victory for worker solidarity.

The company now wants to start negotiations about changes in production and working patterns.

The union goes into these negotiations with our heads held high – and we wish to engage in these talks in a constructive and positive manner.

Workers at the Gaymer Cider Company in Shepton Mallett, are to vote on possible industrial action in a dispute over pay.

The country’s largest union, UNITE says it is holding a ballot of its more than 100 production workers at the Kilver Street site on whether to take strike action or industrial action, short of a strike in the dispute. The ballot closes on Friday 24 January.

The union claims the dispute centres on a three per cent pay rise for 2012-13 which was made conditional on a wage freeze in the following year.

The Royal Bath and West Show celebrates its 150th Show today. It's unique in the South West as it was the only big show to move about before settling in one place in the mid sixties. Its gatherings were held from South Wales to Plymouth.

The first show was back in 1852 but as our Somerset correspondent David Woodland reports, its remit has always been the same - to bring farmers together and to show 'townies' what goes on down on the farm!

The Royal Bath and West Show provides a feast for all the senses, and this 150th year perhaps even more so. Even Michael Eavis, the founder of the Glastonbury Festival, has been getting in on the act, as Bob Cruwys reports.